Cooking with Cricut Challenge #74

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THEME-CHALLENGE: Birthday + a cake, cupcakes or balloons

My card uses the Cricut Imagine Yummy cartridge.

SUPPLIES
A2 card base from DCWV.
Bazzill Basics Coconut Swirl cardstock (then printed with the Imagine)
Piggy Tales cardstock, "toad"
Doodlebug twine
Pebbles, Inc. Happy Birthday rubon
Cuttlebug Birthday embossing folder
Martha Stewart marker, persimmon
Gelly Roll pen, clear star
Foam pop dot
ATG gun

That's it!  One great thing in using the Imagine is you actually will use less paper and supplies and can make a quick card at any time.

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #72

ANOTHER GREAT COOKING WITH CRICUT CHALLENGE!! 

 (find it here)

THEME-CHALLENGE: Grown-up Valentines theme.  

You must use a brad and the color black on your project. 

This challenge is hosted by three Cooking with Cricut Design Team members:  Kemma (that's me!), Dalis and Michelle !!




I was inspired to do something different for this card.  I had heard of tea bag folding in an iris folding class I took in December at my local library.  I was searching through some of my books and happened to find one showing how to make this design.  It involves taking little squares of paper and folding them up rather intricately and then putting them together to form a pattern.  I used George and Basic Shapes cartridge to cut out 8 2x2 pieces for the center design since I did not have a square punch that size, using the white side of the paper for half, and the design paper for the other half.  That is one of the neat things about having a Cricut, I can make a bunch of the same shape really quick and easy with it.  


Supplies
Cutmates Licorice card stock
AC Cardstock in red
Bazzil white
flower paper is from the DCWV Summer stack
Bard door Ranger distress ink
zig 2way glue
a bow brad I got from a set from HSN.com
George and Basic Shapes Cartridge
heart blocks Cuttlebug texture folder

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #50

This is such a simple neat dimensional technique.  Scraplifted from blog.basicgrey.com/?p=1630

Art Nouveau Cartridge Tulip 2 design cut at 5 inches with shift, shift layer 1 and  layer 2 cut 3 times
Bazzill Cardstock in Walnut Cream, Ivy, and Classic YellowGreen
The Paper Company Natural Cartstock (Kraft)
My  Minds Eye So Sophie "Open your heart" Berry Stem two sided card stock
Ranger Distress ink in Tea Dye, Tattered Rose and Wild Honey
atyouSpica Black marker
Cuttlebug Script Texture embossing folder
PK238 Pocket Posies stamp set for the sentiment
October Afternoon Sidewalk twine
Archival Ink in Sepia
ATG gun (new, oh yea! see previous blog post)
Xyron Sticker Maker
Zig 2 way glue
Crop-a-dile Corner Chomper, stub/deco
hole punch

I cut the kraft card stock at 4.25 x 11 and folded for a top fold card of 4.25 x 5.5.  Then I cut the cream cardstock at 4 x 5.25, embossed it and adhered it.  I used my Xyron Sticker maker to adhere the two layers of green.  I then folded each of the top petals of the flower in half and layered them with a very thin line of zig glue in the center and let dry.  Then I could fold up the top two layers, creating the dimensional effect.  I edged the petals with distress ink, one with rose and one with honey.  I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of the kraft and then trimmed it, eyeballing the final size leaving a nice edge all the way around.  Then I punched the edges with the corner chomper and distressed them with the tea dye.  I punched two holes in the bottom and tied a bow with string.  I adhered it with the ATG.

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #67 Something New

For this challenge I needed to use something new. The only crafty thing I got new was some ink blending foam pads (which I did use on this) but Katie got the Give a Hoot cartridge for Christmas so I borrowed that from her.

This card I made using a different type of fold.  To create this card, and so it will fit in the A2 envelope, cut your card base at 11x4.25 and then score it at the 2.75 and the 8.25 marks and it will fold nicely and meet in the middle.

Supplies
Kraft card stock (and envelope)
October afternoon 5&dime striped paper
Bazzill Basics Classic Yellow Green
My Minds Eye So Sophie  Your heart card stock
few scraps from my scrap bin
Ranger Distress inks in tea dye, wild honey, dusty concord and forest moss
Zig 2 way glue
Gelly Roll Clear Star
Birthday stamp from Hero Arts
Cuttlebug bubbles embossing folder